US Patent Issued to DANA HEAVY VEHICLE SYSTEMS GROUP on Feb. 10 for "System and method for shifting a transmission" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,228, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to DANA HEAVY VEHICLE SYSTEMS GROUP LLC (Maumee, Ohio).

"System and method for shifting a transmission" was invented by James Allen (Atherstone, Great Britain), Jordan M. Houser (Sylvania, Ohio), Jared Reichert (Maumee, Ohio), Darren J. Ziskovsky (Bowling Green, Ohio) and Jeffrey M. David (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for shifting a transmission that includes one or more mechanical clutches without clutch plates is described. In one example, a torque output of an electric machine is adjusted in response to a request to shift a transmission so that forces tha...